Pathé Exchange
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, New Line Cinema)
Harold Lloyd is an aspiring writer stuck in a small town. He works as tailor's apprentice by day and writes a "how to" book on love making by night, frequently getting lost in his own daydreams. In real life, he's shy, stutters, and deathly afraid of girls. One day he saves a girl's dog on a train and the two of them fall in love. He breaks it off when his manuscript is rejected by the publisher, but they both continue to pine for each other. Her upcoming marriage provides the opportunity for Lloyd to make a mad dash from his small town to the church chapel, in one of the best "chase" scenes ever put on film. This is leaps and bounds above Lloyd's previous films to this point in his career, with a cohesive story, characters you care about and a sly wit.
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